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Morphological processes of the fluvial channel are controlled by liquid and solid fluxes through hydraulic forces exerted by flow and sediment transport, erosion, and deposition [1]. Large river deltas are complex alluvial systems of outstanding social, ecological, and economical importance, deeply influenced by human activity: dam, groins and dikes construction, meander cutoff. Since the 1880s intensive anthropogenic disturbances have affected the channel of the St. George branch, the southern distributary of the...